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"textContent": "> I think Firefox's macOS version is a \"fat binary\", which allows it to support both Intel and ARM in the same package. We have separate DMGs for each architecture.\n\nYes, that seems to be it.\n\n\nCODE:\n\n\n > file /Applications/Pale\\ Moon.app/Contents/MacOS/palemoon\n\nCODE:\n\n\n /Applications/Pale Moon.app/Contents/MacOS/palemoon: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64\n\nCODE:\n\n\n > file /Applications/Tor\\ Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox\n\nCODE:\n\n\n /Applications/Tor Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64- Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64- Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64]/Applications/Tor Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox (for architecture x86_64):Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64/Applications/Tor Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox (for architecture arm64):Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64\n\nAssuming that the individual binaries of Firefox, for the two platforms, are roughly half the size (i.e. around 250 GB) that is still commendable for PaleMoon ...\n\n* * *",
"title": "Pale Moon for Mac OS • Re: How is PaleMoon 5 times smaller than Firefox on macOS?",
"updatedAt": "2026-06-15T06:56:12.000Z"
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